Society and Lifestyle

  “What if I did not clear this interview?”,“What if they did not like me back?”,“What if I fail?” There are incessant “what ifs” waiting for you to call them out and build on them. If you are a horror fanatic, you know that saying the name of the demon out loud makes them more active. The same applies to the ‘what ifs’. These are the demons of our lives. Amid these questions, ranting or venting is so easy that we hardly try to figure the answers. The answer to, what if I fail? can easily be deciphered. The problem can be solved by just turning 'what ifs' to 'even ifs'. But all these questions are inducing fear and pulling us back from taking any step forward. Rather than preparing for the upcoming event, we are questioning ourselves again and again. Darius Foroux’s “Win your inner battles” , used a different approach to understand fears. According to the book, when men used to hunt, the fear helped them warn against some grave dangers, for example, being lynched by...

"Surroundings can help a person grow or stoop" I believe that the environment of an individual plays an important role in his/her growing process. Just as a tiger’s behavior depends on whether it is born in a forest or a zoo, humans’ behavior is also directly proportional to the environment they lived in. For instance, a tiger is supposed to be a vicious apex predator. This criterion is fulfilled by many tigers living in a forest but not the tigers born and brought in a zoo. In a zoo, it hardly knows how to hunt. Remember the incident from the Delhi Zoo, when a man fell into tiger enclosure. It did not hurt him until the onlookers throwing stones at him to shoo him away. Only after the attack by the audience, it grabbed the neck of the man and went towards its den. Many articles claim that ‘grabbing the neck’ was an attack but I think it was not. The tiger never knew how to hunt. Moreover, this is how they carry their cubs as well. The basic instinct was to save the man fro...

 "I've had choices, since the day I was born. There were voices that told me right from wrong."  Before buying any book, I always check the reviews online or select the book which is highly recommended by others. Based on these recommendations and reviews, I started reading Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”. Following are the remarks by some famous personalities. “Interesting and provocative… It gives you a sense of how briefly we’ve been on this Earth” ―  Barack Obama “Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last… It may be the best book I’ve ever read” ―  Chris Evans And hence began the quest to complete the text. I must say it was a roller coaster ride. It started with an amazing perspective of evolution and agriculture revolution and then it took a turn towards coins (How interesting!!). I jumped ‘the scent of money’ to land on ‘the law of religion’ which was quite interesting, not the jump, the topic. I was trying hard to like t...